Emily Hunt is on the Partnerships and Growth team at VOX Funding. She previously covered the QSR, hospitality, and travel ...

Mo Batran is the CEO and co-founder of xMap, a geospatial AI platform that helps QSR chains and retailers make smarter location decisions using natural language queries, predictive foot traffic, and ...

The Rock Wood Fired Pizza has closed all but two of its locations. In a social media post, the company thanked its customers for “30 incredible years,” writing: “… We’ve made the difficult decision to ...

The Consumer Price Index for September, announced Friday, shows that inflation rose 0.3% month-over-month and 3% year-over-year. The CPI reading is at its highest level since January but fell below ...

Popeyes rolled out new Chicken Dippers in July, accompanied by a new signature sauce, and a Pickles Menu in April, and the promotions generated plenty of buzz and trial. What they didn’t drive, ...

Relentlessly high menu prices coupled with macroeconomic pressures have been a major narrative for well over a year now, driving a decline in traffic and frequency across most restaurant segments. A ...

Angela Diffly is Director of Restaurant Digital and Technology Capabilities at The Coca-Cola Company.

Bloomin’ Brands Inc. quietly closed several restaurants this past weekend, according to local news reports. The company that operates Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s Italian Grill, Bonefish Grill, and ...

Third quarter earnings calls kick off in earnest next week and how they’re going to go is really anyone’s guess. It’s been a strange and rather unpredictable year so far — one that started with a ...

Nation's Restaurant News May 2025Nation's Restaurant News May 2025 We’re tackling some of the hot-button topics facing every restaurant operator today, like Robert F. Kennedy’s influence, GLP-1s, and ...

A new report from Brand Finance reiterates what many of us have been seeing for some time now – Texas Roadhouse is on a tear. The brand valuation consultancy company’s annual report on the most ...

Every year, Nation’s Restaurant News and Datassential partner to present the Top 500, the definitive sales ranking of restaurants in America. In 2022, a mind-blowing 456 restaurant companies in the ...